I often find myself saying that one of our main flaws is to magnify the bad and overlook the good things. This is true in our everyday life. Thus we remember the day someone forgot to salt the food but forget all the other days when the food was right; we blame the...

In a time when the city is ablaze with demolition and talk about illegal buildings and slum clusters, when courts have ordered no further 'regularisation,a board was erected in front of a slum community centre next to pwhy and inaugurated by all the local politicos.....

Funny how the 'poor' emulate the 'rich' in everything.. so this morning S our creche worker who is a little simple minded carried a bunch of cellophane wrapped roses.. she entered the office and and mumbled 'happy bababaa day" and handed her roses to all present.....

In my previous post I wrote about meals in loos.. there were some comments on this post and one that disturbed me. It said:...to me its quite OK ,i am sure there are many more schools in India which dont get anything to eat, let alone the ones stored in toilets...Yes...

Many may have seen the evening news programme that showed a municipal school in Delhi where midday meals were stored in toilets and even classes were held in bathrooms.. a shocking revelation for sure.. but as I looked at the pictures of this resettlement colony...

Last week bulldozers raised MG 1 or the mecca of the fashion industry in India's capital city and our page 3 went up in arms.. TV programmes, newspaper articles, impassioned debates abounded.. even divine intervention was sought as pujas and yagnas were held...Let me...

It's back.. the smile that kept us going through many ordeals...it's back after five weeks in hospital wards, and operation theatres and more such places, and even if nanhe is a little tired and a little thinner, the smile is beaming and larger than ever..You guessed...

You would all agree that terminal examinations are meant to assess performance and help improve the same. You will also agree that an exam has no relevance if marks are not given to the student... well not so in our city....In December all municipal schools held...

When you think nothing can touch or move you, that your heart is safe and well guarded, beware: someone may have other plans for you. It happened to me this morning. This is how:What made me decide to go fetch K and mr P, I do not know.. what made me say 'yes' to...

There is another smile that lit planet why for the past 6 months, a smile that conveyed warmth, compassion and befitted the spirit of pwhy!Sophie came to us last summer and immediately became one of us.. so much so that we almost took her for granted.. not only did...

For 28 days nanhe has kept his smile going.. through pain, humiliating investigations and now invasive surgery which has wreaked his exhausted body.. with tubes and drains hanging and the discomfort of bedsores, nanhe still smiles on..True his smile is a little slower...

All year long we celebrate innumerable festivals.. many are religious... some social... we wish each other diwali and xmas, eid and pongal amd freindship day and mother's day... often not quite knowing what each of them signifies..Today is R Day.. often viewed as a...

here is the latest picture of our very own babli from bed no 6, ward no 2... quite a star she is as she puts on a million dollar smile in spite of pain and a swollen eye! so little babli has a brand new heart... it took some effort that began when mr never say die...

Little Chetna is Nanhe's roomie.. she is two months old and has a hole in her heart that requires surgery.. the family is not rich and the mother bears the stigma of having lost her first daughter and produced another defective one.. everything seems to conspire...

nanhe's operation is still uncertain.. and it is now his 20th day in the hospital.. but believe me ward no 18 is a happy place.. and almost a family ..there is puja who has a tumour in her abdomen, and vishal who has high fever, and vijay who suffers copper toxicity...

Because of your smile.. you make life more beautiful... Thich Nhat HanhThis simple quote by a vietnamese monk sums up nanhe's mission on planet earth.. many of you have fallen in love with his smile and his incredible courage..I must confess there are some who have,...

...and if at any time you feel like there is no hope, think of me sitting 10000 miles away not giving up on him! Also, if there is anything that needs to be done (absolutely anything!) and is stopped because of lack of funds, let me know immedietely.....I will raise...

Many of you have shared with us babli's tryst with life.. this little woman of substance is a true braveheart...Till now, for babli the 'surgery' had been something everyone talked about, something vague that the poor child had no way of imagining. She used to say...

"I know that I can donate to the organization through the website, but I would prefer to sponsor one child's education completely" was what was written in a mail that dropped in my box this morning. It came from an Indian living abroad.I often get request like this...

Yesterday was eid.. some celebrated it, others enjoyed a holiday...certainly if they were government employees..Normally on holidays OPD halls in government hospitals lie empty and bare.. but not quite.. two young doctors decided otherwise in the cardio thoracic...

Many of you have reacted with spontaneity to some of the human problems that I write about..and some of you have suggested solutions that seem plausible and humane.. these are the very solutions that used to come up to my mind when I began my work.. but most of them...

Delhi woke up to its coldest day in 70 years.. it was 0.2 degree celsius.. later that day came an announcement: all primary schools would be closed for two days..Easy said, easy done... great idea, the kids can remain warm at home.. is what one would logically think...

R in his lasted blog mentions a touching letter written by a father after the loss of his son in battle. In his trying to define what makes a true hero, this grieving father writes the following:But even more, being a hero comes from respecting your parents and all...

Babli and Nanhe will be operated upon next week... at project why life continues and the beat goes on..Little Manoj looks like a garden gnome.. he is almost two and cannot stand, his legs not bigger than two sticks.. his bright eyes dart around with intelligence as he...

It is back... the smile that was lost for a while behind a wall of pain is back where it belongs, on nahe's beautiful face..Never mind the foot swollen to double its size because of innumerable intravenous feeds, never mind the now forgotten pain and discomfort of an...

"I almost always start my day at work by reading the projectwhy blogspot" says a friend in the US." I was reading some earlier posts on your blog, as I do when I need inspiration".. says another one from the other side of the planet in AustraliaProject why blogs began...

Nanhe is in hospital and in pain . I was given a garbled and incoherent report on his condition by those who accompanied him. What I could gather was that he would be in hospital for a long time and that the surgery would take place at a later date..Government...